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AI Podcasts

February 3, 2026

Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: AI is collapsing the time horizon for technological deployment and market dominance, shifting the competitive advantage from pure innovation to a combination of innovation, capital, and rapid infrastructure deployment.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in companies that are not just building AI, but are fundamentally rethinking existing industries with AI-first principles, recognizing that traditional software moats are eroding.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 12-24 months will see AI's broad impact kick in, creating unprecedented opportunities for those who understand its new "laws of physics" and the critical role of policy in shaping its trajectory.
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February 4, 2026

Ozempic Won't Solve America's Obesity Problem

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The healthcare system is moving from reactive, acute care to proactive, preventative interventions, driven by the unsustainable costs of chronic disease and a growing understanding of environmental health.
  2. Build infrastructure that financially incentivizes lifestyle interventions, such as TrueMed's HSA/FSA payment rails for health-promoting products and services.
  3. The next decade will see hundreds of billions of dollars redirected towards preventative health. Companies that bridge the gap between lifestyle choices and healthcare financing will capture significant market share.
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February 3, 2026

SpaceX Engineer Explains America's Biggest Energy Mistake | Scott Nolan, CEO of General Matter

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Global energy demand, driven by AI, forces a strategic re-evaluation of nuclear power. This creates a window for nations to re-shore critical energy infrastructure, moving from reliance on adversaries to domestic, cost-competitive solutions.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Investigate companies addressing foundational supply chain gaps in critical industries like energy. Look for teams with a "first principles" engineering approach and a track record of commercializing hard tech.
  3. The Bottom Line: America's energy independence and its ability to power future technological growth, like AI, hinge on rebuilding domestic nuclear fuel enrichment. This is not just an industrial opportunity; it is a national security imperative.
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February 4, 2026

The Economic Singularity Will Make Today’s Economy Unrecognizable w/ Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: AI-driven hyperdeflation is colliding with the technical reality of autonomous AI agents creating their own crypto-backed economies, threatening a decoupling from human fiat systems.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Investigate and build infrastructure that bridges human and AI economies, focusing on fiat-to-crypto rails that can accommodate agent-driven transactions to prevent a complete split.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 5-10 years will see an unprecedented economic transformation. Understanding AI's deflationary power and the emerging AI agent economy is critical for navigating a world where traditional economic models may no longer apply.
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February 3, 2026

OpenClaw Makes AI Agents and CPUs Get Real

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The time of practical AI agents is here, moving compute demand beyond pure GPU inference to a significant reliance on CPUs for coordination, data handling, and security.
  2. Evaluate your agent deployment strategy now, prioritizing sandboxed environments (VPS, dedicated local servers) and exploring cost-optimized model routing to manage API expenses.
  3. Prepare for a future where AI agents become integral to workflows, but recognize the hidden infrastructure costs and security implications, particularly the growing importance of CPU capacity and robust access controls.
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February 4, 2026

⚡️ Context graphs: AI’s trillion-dollar opportunity — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from "how" to "why" in AI agent capabilities creates a new, multi-trillion-dollar market for companies that can capture institutional decision logic.
  2. Invest in or build agentic systems that are in the "right path" of business processes, actively capturing decision traces from unstructured data.
  3. Hundreds of context graphs will be in production at scale within a year, defining a new "context graph stack." The winning companies will be those that master this flywheel, extracting value to accelerate automation and build deep, defensible moats.
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February 2, 2026

We Entered an Era Where No One Knows What Comes Next

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from linear, bottleneck-driven technological progress to a multi-layered, interconnected advancement model in AI has rendered traditional forecasting obsolete, forcing a re-evaluation of what "singularity" truly represents.
  2. Prioritize adaptability: Invest in modular, composable AI infrastructure and tools that thrive in multi-layered, unpredictable environments, rather than betting on single-bottleneck solutions.
  3. The inability to narrate AI's future means traditional roadmaps are obsolete; success hinges on navigating simultaneous, interconnected advancements and embracing the emergent.
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February 3, 2026

Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The era of infrastructure-heavy tech deployment is over; AI's internet-native nature means immediate, widespread application. This shifts the competitive advantage from capital-intensive builds to rapid iteration and data leverage.
  2. Invest in companies that are not just using AI, but are fundamentally rethinking their business models around AI's ability to collapse traditional cost structures and accelerate product development.
  3. AI is a force multiplier for both individual opportunity and national power. Understanding its immediate deployability and the new rules of company building is crucial for investors and builders aiming to lead in the next wave of innovation over the next 12-24 months.
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February 2, 2026

Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, coupled with a deregulatory environment, creates a powerful tailwind for financial assets and tech, driving a capital investment super cycle.
  2. Investors should prioritize companies with proprietary data and GPU access, as these are the new moats in an AI-driven world where traditional software leads are eroding.
  3. The convergence of a stimulative macro environment and AI's disruptive force means capital will flow to those who can scale, innovate, and navigate complex policy landscapes, making strategic positioning now critical for future relevance.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 9, 2026

Stablecoin Deep Dive with Frax and Transak

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from DeFi to Neo-Finance where on-chain liquidity meets institutional payment rails.
  2. Prioritize assets that are integrated with payment processors like Stripe or Bridge.
  3. 2026 is the year of the exponential. The winners won't be the high-float L1s but the protocols that function as the economic engine for both lenders and shoppers.
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January 9, 2026

How China Is Quietly Dominating Crypto | Shuyao Kong

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The next cycle favors teams that combine Western storytelling with Eastern operational intensity.
  2. Monitor the tools and platforms used by high-volume Chinese retail clusters to identify emerging liquidity trends on Solana.
  3. Ignoring the Chinese ecosystem is a choice to remain blind to the market's most active participants.
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January 8, 2026

Why 2026 is The Year of Unification with Sam Kazemian

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Neo Finance is replacing legacy banking as stablecoins become the TCP/IP packet for all value transfer.
  2. Position in protocols that own their distribution and payment rails rather than those relying on third party liquidity.
  3. The next six months will separate synthetic products from real money as the market rewards end to end utility over isolated DeFi yields.
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January 8, 2026

Hivemind: Will 2026 Be Bullish & Crypto's Token vs Equity Problem

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "governance" to "on-chain equity" is the defining trend for 2025. As regulatory clarity improves, capital will migrate to assets with legally enforceable rights.
  2. Monitor MetaDAO ICOs like Ranger Finance to gauge if retail appetite for "ownership coins" can sustain high valuations. Watch for the first "home run" success story to validate the model.
  3. The next cycle belongs to applications with legally enforceable revenue rights, not L1s with vague utility. Founders who prioritize investor protections will trade at a permanent premium.
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January 8, 2026

Do Buybacks Make Sense? | Lucas Bruder

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from opaque block production to verifiable sequencing via tools like BAM and Multiple Concurrent Proposers.
  2. Monitor validator IBRL scores to ensure your transactions aren't being sidelined by yield-chasing leaders.
  3. Solana is maturing into a professional-grade financial layer where execution efficiency is the only sustainable moat for the next 12 months.
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January 7, 2026

Generation Generative: AI Companions, Teen Mental Health, and Missing Guardrails

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: From Utility to Persuasion. We are moving from tools that answer questions to entities that form personality through constant sycophantic interaction.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your stack. Prioritize decentralized data protocols to ensure user ownership over intimate conversational data.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next decade is about the "Right to Play" and data sovereignty. If we do not build guardrails now, we risk raising a generation that cannot handle human friction.
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